Custom tactics

Same for FIFA 14 as before custom tactics can give you a whole new FIFA experience and can help a less skilled FIFA player beat a higher skilled opponent. Creating attacking and defending tactics then combining with custom formations will change how you play FIFA forever. If you prefer to play like Barcelona slowly passing looking for a killer pass with high pressure defending then you can make any team do this with custom tactics. It helps if the players in your team are suited to your style and tactic. You can also use custom tactics in Ultimate team as well as head to head.

To the right are a set of videos we have created to show how to set them up and various examples. The first video also shows how you can use the custom tactic of any team such as Brazil or Spain and apply that to your team in any online or offline mode in FIFA. Other videos include how to create possession football to all out desperation attack. Open them full screen using the bottom right button on each or simply open our youtube channel on them. Below we describe what the basic options are when setting up a custom tactic. To create any custom tactic go into an exhibition mode and select a team. Before starting the game click on team management and custom tactics. You will see options as below. You can save the tactic and this becomes a custom tactic named after the team you chose. As in the first video you could simply choose Barcelona and save the tactic as custom to use in Ultimate team or anywhere else. During games use the D-Pad up and down arrows to access the custom tactics you have created.

Build up play settings

How your team builds up the play to get into positions where they can create chances.

Passing

Short mixed or long. Whichever you select your team mates will expect so position themselves accordingly. If your previous choices were slow it will help to have shorter passing.

Positioning

Organised keeps defenders and midfielders roughly in their positions. Free form allows them to swap and make runs away from their normal posisiton of the pitch. Others drop to cover. If you don’t have great players able to cover positions stick to organised.

Chance creation settings

A key area of FIFA. When attacking opponents third other players you aren’t controlling react to these settings.

Passing

Determines if players are looking for you to play a safe ball or try squeeze through a tight gap (risky). Often you will see players offside on FIFA because the player is expecting a through ball early. Change passing to safer than riskier and they will stay onside more. You can always tell a player to go on a run using the left bumper when you want them to.

Crossing

Set to lots and players look for the ball in to the box all the time. If you use little they won’t run in waiting to head or volley it but will pull short for the pass to feet. If you have passing set to risky and crossing set to lots you will need to cross the ball early as the players will get into the box as fast as they can.

Shooting

As you control the player who is going to be shooting (unless only controlling pro in career mode etc) this isn’t about whether a player will shoot as soon as they can. It is more about them positioning themselves and being ready to shoot as soon as they have the ball. You might as well set this to high to make the rest of your team try to find space for first time shot.

Positioning

This is the key setting and has been added to each of the formations on that page. Some formations are better with organised positioning to keep players in their best positions. Some have a more creative attacking set up and free form helps certain players dictate the play. As a rule if you have highly skilled players in attack using a short passing game free form is the way to go. If playing direct or less skilled players Organised is usually better.

Defence settings

We all know how bad defenders are on FIFA. The dreaded first touch and appauling back pass attempts. Make them slightly better with custom tactics.

Pressure

Deep will make your team drop back and invite the other team to try break them down. Will catch less offside but you will stop most of the lobbed through ball abuse. Set to medium your players will start to press in your half and set to high they will go press your opponent in their half. Have a couple of tactics with this set high and low and switch between them to confuse your opponent.

Aggression

If set to contain your players will hold off the attacker and force him to pass or try and beat them. If players are using skill moves this will stop them more often. When set to press you will notice your players attempting tackles and sliding usually when you don’t want them to. With double set it is even worse as two or more players will press and attempt tackles. Advice here is to always set to contain unless desperately trying to get the ball back with time running out. Or annoyed and just want to kick as many players as possible ;-). This does affect stamina too so only advisable if they have lots of it such as in form Ultimate Team players.

Team width

Narrow defends attacks through middle, wide expects attacks down wings and normal gives a balance. If opponent using a narrow formation such as 4-1-2-1-2 then set to narrow. A formation with wingers such as 4-3-3 set to wide! Job done.

Defender line

Cover makes defenders do just that, cover each other. A left or right back will run inside to stop a striker bursting through if centre back is missing or has been beaten for example. They will hold a deeper line whereas using offside trap they will push up the field. The left back would leave the striker breaking through hoping he is offside.

173 Comments

How do I make it so that I can use my custom tactic on ultimate team, I always have to do it in team management, also is there a way I can save a custom tactic to the tactics menue bit? (when you push the d pad in game)

i started out with the 41212 formation after tinkering with the formation in edit mode and moving players about. I have now ended with a 424 formation and kept my players in their proper roles no free form or changing the custom tactics at all.

Anyone know if it’s possible for custom tactics to be accessible for both people when playing online friendlies in fifa 14? The person sending the game invite seems to be the only person who gets this option whilst the recipient of the request can’t access this before or during the game.

Hi, I am new to FIFA 14. I followed the tutorial to set up one custom tactics. and then went to “Quick tactics” and replaced the first one with the custom one I created. when I tried to apply the tactics, I could not see the custom one.
I read through all the post in this thread and you mentioned there are actually 8 tactics. 4 for offensive, 4 for defensive.
So when setting up custom tactic, how do I put the custom tactic in offensive vs defensive?
and when in game how to switch between offensive and defensive tactics?

hi i want to create two different custom tastics with two different formation one for ultra defending and one for ultra attacking to use in game mode via d-pad depending on the situation if iam chasing or trying to defend
what are the best formation for both any ideas ?
and how much bar or numbers should i increase/decrease it to in build up play chance creation and defending
i tried using 20-20-20 in defense but in some matches it works in some it does not
any suggestions would be appreciated cheers

it’s becoming more and more clear to me that their is some type of flaw in the game. Clearly, when some people(myself included) select the in-game tactics(high press/counter etc) or custom tactics they clearly don’t work. I’ve read through just about all of the questions/comments and many people are experiencing this and the only reply is telling them how to select tactics in game which we all know how to do. It’s very frustrating to play against people who use the tactics(everyone) and they have a clear advantage. Their is even many comments regarding being caught from behind by defenders and they use the jossle/tug button and pull you off the ball, take the ball and no foul is called wheras when the same group that Im referring to does it..it doesn’t work the same. You hit the button and your guy reaches out and barely effects the guy and if you continue to press the button you’re called for a foul. Again, the only suggestion is to press the jossle/tug button which again we already know but it’s not the true issue. I love this site and appreciate all the work put in and HIGHLY appreciate that someone takes the time to read and at least reply to questions/comments but it seems like the replies are all stock and store and don’t address the true issue. Same issue with goal kicks..if you kick it off the ball will always be headed by the man on defense up to their striker. You will never win the jump ball because your player is always behind the man on defense. On the other hand, when my opponent kicks off their player always wins the header and if theyre behind me the guy literally comes up and jumps over my guy to get the ball..seriuosly Messi comes up from behind and out jumps the taller, better positioned player on my team to get the ball to their player. If these issues happened every now and then..no problem but it’s every single game. Maybe their is no answer. I’m ready to give up and I actually love the game but these glaring issues are getting the best of me. I’m holding out hope that FIFA on Xbox One will be different and something as simple as tactics working when selected actually works, for everyone…the same way. Again, thanks again for all the work put into the site. Sorry to vent. Please, if anyone has over came these types of issues please help. Many people would greatly benefit from it. Thanks in advance and again, sorry for venting.

Probably better communicating to us on facebook. Though would take us far too long to respond to every point we have tried to cover on the site already. Sounds like you need to learn the game more how players react and how to make them do things.

Hi, I’m wondering two things. when i go to edit my formation (3.5.2) i notice that everyone is set to medium-medium. Even though, i’ll change my cb’s to High D low Attack. Are the changes not taking effect ? Also, is there a way to turn off one touch ? it kills me, because i move the ball alot, and do pass thru’s with players making long runs.

I try to mimic the tactics of my home town club SC Freiburg, Bundesliga.

They play a 4-4-2 with two defensive midfielders, l+r MF and two strikers which are both called a floating “9” meaning that they are first point of defense and integrated in the mainly short passing game.

The club tries to create chances by switching offensive positions most of the times, and playing through the wings with crosses or short passes through the middle.

The two Fullbacks make runs and assist the attack, with the CBs stay put. When opening a play one of the defense midfield players gets between the CBs while the spread left and right to enable passing.

I think in British football this would be close to the tactic that Swansea is playing.

The players have skills from 65 to low 80ies.

I managed to re-create most of this in Fifa, but I am struggeling to have players central in front of the box once the strikers are inside or on the wings – I guess due to the lack of an COM (if I play 4-1-2-1-2 I get one but with the cost of defense).

I also find it difficult in fifa 14 to get playes to move in free positions and make runs.

What advice would have have on formation (I usually use customized 4-4-2, 4-1-2-1-2 or 4-2-2-2 and in regards of tactics:

i have one question though what is the purpose of edit positioning for players in custom tastics (formation edit) (player positioning)
where it says RS and u have to assign those arrows left right up down side ways in both defence and attack
do these errows mean in which way or directions the players make run too
please explains thanks 🙂

well ofcours, your formation on paper seems very basic and sort of defensive. From what i can tell, you rely on crosses to assist your strikers but find it hard to create play through the middle without a number 10 because both your central midfielders are defensive and both your strikers are in the box. There is so many things you can do without changing your formation drasticaly, ill tell you two simple ones, i can’t tell you how to set it up on fifa though. I suggest you set your team into a 4-4-2 where one stiker is behind the other a sort of like a 4-4-1-1, and only have one roaming, so if you cross, you have two players in the box but if you play through the middle one will perfom as a number 10 and on will b in the box… Another way is having box to box midfielders who have high attacking work rate and high defensive work rate like Ramires, if you cant then get one who has high defensive work and medium attackng work rate the other one must have high attacking work rate and medium defensive work rate so they are balanced. Try not to cross with your strikers, pass the ball and wait for them to get in the box rather

hi guys this site is really helpful when i first bought fifa 14 i wasnt enjoying playing it at all before at professional level i was finding it really hard to move the ball forward because the opponents attackers mid fielders and defenders were always all over me making tackles specially push and pull and my defenders such as kyle walker( rb) micah richards (cb) david alaba (Lb) jordi alba (Lcb)were always making the runs forwards which was really getting into me and leaving a lot of gaps in my defending and there was like hardly any one in the box to recieve the cross or theyd always arrive too late but after reading custom tastics on your site i made some changes in my team management and everything worked out too fine now defenders stay in defend dnt come forward no more and attackers always in the box or around to attack (chelsea career mode) and i also learnt the push and pull feature which has been really helpful thank you guys heaps am enjoying it heaps more then yay 😉

I know how to create custom tactics…I know how to get it on my quick tactics to use during the game and I know you use the d pad to select during the game but for the past two years whenever I select them they don’t work. Nothing literally changes. I mean, i even go in and set aggression to 100, double team the defender and no one does anything..they just sit back but it clearly is working for everyone that I play against. I’m wondering how do you get the team to actually perform the custom tactic after selecting it. As I said, I select it and absolutely nothing happens. PLEASE!!!! Help me if you can. Thanks. I really would like help with this.

I understand they make a difference which is why I’m trying to figure out how to get them to actually be implemented in the game when I choose it. Does the team captain have to be in use for it to take effect. I can’t be the only person that this is happening to. Am I correct in assuming that all you should have to do it select the tactic in game with the d pad and it should go into effect immediately?

playing on ultimate team would you suggest making a specific set of quick tactics for each different team you make depending on the players you have, or would you have four set quick tactics you can change to depending on what kind of opponent you come up against. I dont really want to be changing custom tactics during the game

Actually it is best to leave the custom tactics alone that is set for each team.All i did was tinker with the a certain formation and changed the players position and there work rates which in turn will change the formation you started out with. so really if you just play around with a formation you like and then just tinker with the base positions of the players and the defensive work rate aswell as the attacking work rate.

Hi, im playing with juventus, and i created a custom tactic but i find it hard to use Llorente as my Target man, every time i cross the ball, he gets beated by a way smaller defender, or the CF behind Llorente gets to the ball, so this is getting me really pi**ed, here is how im playing:
Buffon
Caceres – Barzagli/Peluso – Chiellini
Liechsteiner – Marchisio – Pirlo – Vidal – Asamoah
Tevez
Llorente

I want a good formation nd tactics that suit this squad…. i prefer a counter attacking style with passing and aggressive defence . I want better support in attacking as more players move forward and get in good positions…… i prefer through balls for scoring

Hey, I use a 4-3-3 formation. I use the wings to cross the ball into the box for the striker to head a lot. I also like to counter attack with fast passing. I also want to avoid the opposition to make lob passes/crosses and avoid 1on1 situations. What custom tactics do you recommend?

Hi, I’m playing carreer mode with Barcelona. My current team is:
LLoris
Daniel Alves – Pique – Thiago Silva – Alba
Mascherano – Busquets
Di Maria – Messi – Iniesta
Klose
My formation is 4-2-3-1 wide (a little modified). I’m not satisfied with my team, i think my defence, even with these player, isn’t solid enough (it seems to be a lot of room where it shouldn’t be) and my attack sometimes can be a little bit like Barcelona without Messi lol. I like playing building up, with a lot of “gives and goes” through balls, crossing and shots from outside the box. I usually run with the ball, mostly with Messi (CAM) and Di Maria (RM). I also use my wingers to defence. With Bacelona, i’ve been suffering from corners and crosses, which is not usual. What would you suggest me? Oh, in my squad i also have, among others, Xavi, Song, Cazorla and Wilshere. Thank you.

I like to play 41212 diamond or 352. I have the following team, this will give u an idea of what is best. I like to be able to attack but keep defence solid and hard to break down.
gk – al habsi
rb – stam
cb – j.boateng
cb – spolli
lb – boyce
cb – ramis

Just pass to your striker, then do a 1-2 to a midfielder so striker runs forward. Then you will create space. Set your players to short passing and movement so they always create space close to you to pass to.

I play passing game. Usually I play with Liverpool with 4-2-2-2. I put Gerrard and Suarez in front, Carrol as CAM, Munain and Downing as wingers, and at back, the default back players. I usually love to play the Bayern style where wingers take the ball upto the corner position and then progress towards the middle thru passes, keeping the ball, looking for spaces and one or two killer passes to finish the job. But I don’t know the appropriate formation settings for it. What formation and the correspondimg settings should I choose?

The settings need to suit your style of play so you need to set high crossing so that your wingers expect the ball. Difficult as you like to pass it from there. I would keep changing each setting until you are happy.

Hello,guys.I need your help.I need an advice.Usually i do play 4-3-2-1.I have won titles in the FUTdivision1 10 times.But i have a problem.I have played against teams,which defense very organized; every time their players cover mine players very tight,each my pass has been intercepted.Their defenders wait mine attackers,their defenders take ball from my attackers even though my attackers ahead defenders from 3-4 steps.Their players move great and fast,mine are really slow and run like a sleepy cow!!!!!!!!!!!!There is too much open space in my half of field.How i can solve this problem?Special quick tactic? I don’t understand,why so much differences between my team and opponent team?!!HELP!!!SOS!!!!!

Hi ya matey. I’m currently building a BPL team at the moment but I like to pass the ball in and around the midfield area and use short passing1-2s etc and through balls to set up goal opportunities and I also like to use wing play as well to try and break things up a bit. I like my front players to make plenty of runs when required. My goals are a mixture from wingers cutting in and shorting where possible, inside the box as well as outside the box with long shots.

Hi. I would like to suggest you that you should change the Build Up Speed from Slow to Fast. Or you can have it as normal but never Slow. Your players will not go forward and create spaces if you play at professional or world class.

Would you tell me what is the best custom tactic under 4-3-3? Nowadays every action ends up on my striker who is playing like playmaker… what’s more, defenders aint defending, I got second line Lampard-Yaya Toure-Fellaini, and I expected at least toure and fellaini to stay back and destroy the opponents actions but of course I was wrong… The major problem is preety big space beetwen defenders and midlefenders and I want my right back and left back to stay with the rest of defenders… One simple counter attack can cost me goal…

Thanks, this was exactly what i needed. will try it immediately. can you also help with player mentality settings? can you set the backs separately as a group from the other players? Will you similarly explain the effects of each setting. what is the ideal, when?

I stop playing with this crap. It is about who has more luck during some crutial situation. I am fed up loosing againts people with 1 or 2 goals because of some weird unlucky situations…. It should not work like this, it is just not fair… I really tried to learn and practise, but now it is enough… I am very disappointed, because it could have been a good entertaining game, not an annoying crapy stuff….

Hi,
as many others I have problems suddenly beeing run over by the opponent via lobbed balls or spontanously getting a header after a cross (although dominating the wohle game). Now, since a while I always use the “man-marking” feature on the opponents main striker (or both if there are two) so my CBs stuck with them and never ever leave them alone (at least that’s the theory!).
Do you have any experience with this feature? Does it actually work? Would you recommend it or does it have any negative effects or are there better solutions?

Would custom tactics work on other game modes as well (such as UT and career mode etc.)? Also, would the changes you made to the tactics remain the way they are, or would you have to change it back to your preferred custom tactics time and time again?
Thnx

i was wondering if you could help me i play online in the ea arena (virgingaming) and was wondering if its possible to use my custom tactics there and if possible custom formation. if so how? id be very grateful to know

Great article.Just a quick query. The way I play is 4321 and let the midfield give it to the front 3 as quick as possible and let them do the work with their running and playing it in to the central striker who plays little through balls to the LF and RF. Very counter attacking style. I changed settings to a fast build up, mixed passing, and attempt risky passing. However what I’m getting now is when the midfield have it, they try passing to the front 3 but their already running forward, so the oppositions defence easily intercepts. What would be the best way to stop this from happening? I want my front 3 available for the pass from the midfield, and then they can do the through balls and cross field passes?

So when I’m playing online, and my opponent scores a goal, and then starts passing the ball between his defense and goalkeeper, how do I get my team to put high pressure on his team so that he doesn’t have time to do that?
I try to switch to High Pressure tactic, but nothing happens, I can only get 2 players up there by controlling one and having the computer push with another player…
However, when I try to do that myself, my opponent can get his team to push with 4 players rushing at my defense line… there must be something else? Is it a custom tactic?

Yes as explained above. Set your defense to the highest pressure and aggression settings. You also need to use players with high defence work rate. You could change that with a custom formation but they don’t save any more in UT. Unless you mean head to head games where they do save.

Thanks for the tips… can you please elaborate more on the defense work rate? I usually use the pre-defined formations from the game, but I can’t switch the formation on the go, I have to pause and change that, unlike tactics.. and yes, i’m talking about head 2 head… i dont play UT.. as much as ive tried it, i never find it entertaining, as all my players keep getting expired and find myself short on money all the time… frustrating! 🙂

if you want to stop people passing in the back then use them quick tactics:
high pressure, team pressing and ultra attacking. It makes him get pressured in his own half and about 5-6 of your people come up which means he has to push forward

From testing so far more to do with AI of the game and the players themselves, ie their work rate. Can kind of alter work rate with a custom formation but they don’t save. Lots to come soon to help everyone.

I have been trying to make a custom tactic for Manchester united in Fifa 13. I’m having trouble scoring with their play style and formation a majority of the time, so i tried out several custom tactics costing me my “Seasons” win-tie-loss ratio. Not to sound arrogant but i’m better then a majority of every player i play but just i cant open the space up as quickly as i could have in fifa 12. I give away lame goals as well. Anyway, back on topic. I’m looking for a custom tactic that can give me quick 1-2 passing that send players on runs often through the middle (hitting pass button a RB; to send player on run) i also like to through ball the to my striker and cross as well. i like top play LIKE Manchester United on T.V. but i cant do it for some reason in Fifa 13. I would like to use the 4-4-1-1 formation or 4-2-3-1 maybe 4-3-3 (highly unlikely), Ι like using my wingers because that’s what Manchester United is about but i prefer playing it through the middle.
My second team is Netherlands and they were my heart and soul in Fifa 12 , their tactics were exactly how i liked to play but it doesn’t seem to work when i use their tactics on Manchester United in Fifa 13. I really would like some help and guidance so i can get myself on a role again in Fifa 13 because right now its just not “clicking”

i like my one two passes to be 10-17 yards away , and i love pulling off through balls with Rooney and Scholes

Certainly know what you want ha. Key to FIFA is not to worry about your record and learn the game, then beat everyone in the future. You can’t play through the middle and down the wings so set your defence and attack to narrow and a narrow formation. Keep tweaking the settings for passing etc by 5 until reasonably happy. Lots of this depends on your opponent however so creating tactics to play against different formations and tactics. Same as in real life.

Ok so here is a short stroy of mine, I always use Manchester United in fifa or pes, i never played with any other team. Now i am playing fifa after 3-4 years of gap. so i bought fifa 13 played loads of matches offline in world class and legendry level and now i got connected online and playing seasons mode. I just can not win games man. my current record is 34-36-44. but funny thing is 70% of the time i have this feeling that i am a better player than my opponent, i dominate possesion, sometime to even 68%, but i can not create clear cut chances. and on the other hand opponent will just press through ball and there you go, one on one chance… when i am in midfield, i play loads of 1-2 passes and when i reach final 3rd my players are always running towards goal and not available to take a pass. I want to play tiki taka barca style football.. but even with possesion well in 60’s i am s*** at fifa.

on top of that my game is in polish only. no english and its hard to change settings and tactics. i am having nightmares. thinking of buying pes13….

Hi B4RCA
first let me thank you for the great tips and guide that u have been providing.
I am having a little bit of a problem playing online for some reason.
I currently have all the good player in fifa13 ultimate team more like u name it and I have it for example I have the full Madrid, barca, man city, man united, chelse,arsenal ..”..etc
But for some reason my players don’t seem to run as fast as my opponent nor they respond as fast. On top of that they seem to lose stamina almost in no time
I have played FIFA for a long time and I love the game on ps3
But what’s killing me is that I have played other people online and ey don’t even have any player that’s as good as mine and yet they seem to over run my players including Ronaldo and messi it’s like my Ronaldo is rated 75 and they’re players r rated 99
And I have tried everything I know from changing tactics to slowing down to save my stamina u name it and yet my opponent seem to always have the speed over my players
I even tried using some of the big names as Sub and yet they are not even close to the opponent team on top of that I have a full stamina and moral cards to 99 and yet nothing different …
Would u please help me
And thank you again for the great guide that u have provided

Would only know what the problem is by playing against you. Not much time for that at the moment. When we played against others teaching them last year they didn’t know all the little touches and ways to play the game which are on the site already.

M8, for second i thought u were talking about me…..I am having exactly same problem. I have the best possible squad from Seria A and EPL on Ultimate Team and i still have lots of trouble playing people online. And its not like im playing guys with good squads, so far i only run into 3-4 guys that have squad good as mine. For example, Abate in my Seria A squad has 93 pace and i still have hard time catching up with players that have 70 pace. While in the other hand my 90+ pace players are being caught up with opponents defenders in matter of seconds…. Any ideas why is that happening????

Guys you have to make sure your players have high morale and stamina and you haven’t been running them around lots. Then there is the control settings for moving your players and also the little tricks. Check out the blog on winning at FIFA and also the tutorials on attacking, defending and the skills section (FIFA secret skills).

Good work. The thing is tactics aren’t always going to work against different opponents. If you have set passing to 10 your players aren’t going to come looking for the ball. They are expecting you to lay it to where they are. You might want to change the chance creation passing see if that helps.

Hi all lately Im been doing not good at fifa 12 Im in division 3 and I cont win at all I play as chelsea and I really wont u to tell me a really good custom formations and tactics plz help me fifa addict

Working on videos to help people decide. All depends on style of play and how good you are at FIFA though. There isn’t 1 magic formation for everyone. Keep an eye on tweets for new updates to site over next few weeks.

This formation is a monster for the opposition to deal with if you can exploit the defense with central passing and good ball control.

Ok, so.. what about the tactics..

here are the custom tactics i suggest using, you’re going to want to try to keep the field narrow for the opposition and keep a bit of a deep back line so you dont ever get broken by cheap deep balls over the top… this is very important.

I need some expert explanations about the strategic side of football – player positioning, movement, formations, styles, etc.
Don’t you have like a PM system or something like that? Because what I want to talk about isn’t something I would share to the public.

hey can you please help me with some custom tactics i am really tired of losing online the team i use the most is real madrid and manchester united every time i try to make my own custom tactics it dont work

Is there any way to stop my left and right backs from going up? I hate it when they do it because I just get counter attacked. The only way I know how to stop it is to go on ultra defensive, but then on corner kicks I only get 2 people in the box so I never score them.

What is the best tactics to use against high pressure? I always do really well when playing against regular tactics and ill be winning then the other player will switch to high pressure and i always lose possession and end up giving up goals. I play pretty high normally, but not to the max. So what is a good setup for countering the high pressure?

The question Im asking myself:
How can people be sprinting 90min??
Is this only due to the use of tactics? What can I do against it?
When ever I try to get some pressure on one of his players I always stay far from him. But the other player presses me, he always comes really close, unlike what im doing..and when I get tackled nothing happens. When I tackle the ball.. I get a card and mostlikely he gets a free penalty.
Is this a bug? My players get injured and the referee does nothing.

Hello!
I play in head-to-head with Napoli. From main menu i went to cusomise fifa >>> edit teams >>> team management and i saved my custom tactics. I wanna know how to use those tactics in ultimate team. No matter which team i play, i can use that saved tactic from Napoli, right? I am asking this cause i modified pressure and aggresion both to 90 and i don’t see my players acting different when i activate napoli default during ultimate team games. And how many tactics can i have in the same time? high pressure + napoli default in the same time, or just one by one? U know if u press down arrow 4 different choices will be there. But also if u press up arrow, 4 choices there too. So I can use in the same time one from pressing down arrow and one from entering with up arrow? example: can i have in the same time high pressure + team offside trap, or one of these? One more thing: changing from balanced to offensive, ultra offensive or the left (devensive, ultra defensive) affects your team alot? i mean the players and how they move in the field.

So you have that right. Why it isn’t working would have to be sat with you watching to see. Should work fine can you tell us what the settings are for each part of custom tactic? Can only use 1 at a time. Also depends if your players are set to free roam defending and attacking as to how they behave on pitch.

Hi. i wanna use custom tactics, but i don’t know where to find them in fifa 12 menu 🙂 i wanna set my own tactics for head-to-head seasons and for my ultimvoate team games too. so can u tell me where can i enter fifa 12 menu and have full access to set the tactics? Btw, i play it on ps3. I found here useful things for fifa, keep up the good work!

Go into an exhibition game and click on custom tactics in the team menus before the game starts. When you amend a tactic you can save it. Then when playing any game mode at the same screen you can load the saved tactic to use.

You have to create a tactic which matches your style of play. If you are patient passing it about you need the settings to reflect that. 4-4-2 I would advise set the wingers individually to attack only and move them further up the pitch. Then set tactic to play ball to wing lots with a wider formation and more crossing. Don’t really use 4-4-2 much but that’s the best way to use it.

Just look at their tactics currently in an exhibition mode and tweak to higher chance creation and more short passing. Higher pressure. You can save your tweaked version as Barca tactic and use in any part of game with any team.

100 on everything doesn’t really make sense from a building attack point of view or defending. The idea is you are telling your players what sort of team to be and how to attack and defend. They would be told they have to shoot from everywhere but yet you have other stats at 100 telling them to pass it and cross it. Players would therefore not react in a way you could understand.

Each of us use different formations Jack. Will be updating more of site soon. I use a combination of 4-2-3-1 formation with custom tactics. One tactic to create quick direct play and one to hold back and slow play set to short passing and slow build up. Use both of these combined in games online to confuse opponent and launch large attacks suddenly. Keep your eye on the site next few days.